Senior AI Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Nov 12, 2026. First seen by Alion on Nov 12, 2026. ING Group scores B on the Alion truth index.
At ING Hubs Spain we are looking for a Senior AI Engineer
Your role and work environment:
We're looking for an enthusiastic lead AI Engineer with a passion for cybersecurity and emerging technologies. This role is ideal for someone who is highly motivated to specialize in the secure adoption of AI and Agentic AI at enterprise scale. You will help shape how ING securely designs, deploys, and governs AI solutions by developing security capabilities, best practices, and controls that enable responsible AI innovation across the bank.
AI Security & Safety Team
This position is part of the AI Security & Safety Team, a newly established team within Global CISO responsible for enabling the secure and responsible adoption of AI across ING. The team monitors emerging AI developments and risks, research industry best practices, validates security standards, and collaborates with policy bodies, industry forums and research institutions to stay at the forefront of AI security and safety developments. The team translates these insights into practical security standards, guidance, and capabilities that help ING securely design, deploy, and operate AI and Agentic AI solutions at scale.
CISO organization
The Chief Information Security Office (CISO) protects ING's information, technology, and digital services against cyber threats while enabling secure innovation across the bank. The organization brings together capabilities across Identity & Access Management (IAM), Security Detection & Response (SDR), Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), and Attack Surface Management (ASM) to strengthen ING's cyber resilience, manage security risks, and support the secure adoption of emerging technologies, including AI.
As Frontier AI capabilities continue to advance, ING is investing in dedicated expertise to understand their impact on cybersecurity, strengthen the bank's security posture, and ensure AI and Agentic AI solutions are designed, deployed, and operated securely at scale. The AI Security & Safety Team acts as the CISO's centre of expertise for AI security and safety.
How to Succeed as a member of AI Security & Safety team?
You combine strong software engineering skills with a passion for AI and cybersecurity. You stay current with advances in Frontier AI and are able to turn emerging technologies into practical, secure, and scalable solutions for ING.
You thrive in fast-moving environments, take ownership from idea to deployment, and actively contribute to building AI security capabilities, standards, and best practices across the organization. You can effectively bridge software engineering, AI innovation, and security, helping ING adopt AI and Agentic AI safely and responsibly at scale.
As a lead AI engineer, What to expect?
- Develop AI-powered applications and proof of concepts using frontier AI models, commercial AI services, and open-weight models.
- Evaluate, benchmark, and monitor AI systems to assess their capabilities, limitations, risks, and security implications.
- Design and implement solutions leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs), Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and Agentic AI patterns.
- Build secure, scalable, and production-ready AI solutions aligned with security and governance requirements.
- Share knowledge and insights to advance the organization's understanding of AI technologies, opportunities, and risks.
What do you bring?
- Education & experience
- Master’s degree or PhD in computer science, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber Security, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field.
- 8+ year experience n AI Engineering, Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Cyber Security, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience building and operating production-grade AI solutions at enterprise scale.
- Core technical stack
- Advanced Python, SQL, PyTorch/TensorFlow (SAS is an advantage)
- Experience with MLOps/LLMOps practices, including model lifecycle management, evaluation, monitoring, observability, and CI/CD.
- Strong software engineering fundamentals, including testing, code quality, software architecture, and distributed systems design.
- GenAI & data capabilities
- HuggingFace (Transformers, PEFT), LangChain/LlamaIndex, Vector Stores (FAISS/Vertex Search), designing and optimising RAG pipelines.
- Experience building AI agents and agentic workflows using frameworks such as LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or similar.
- Understanding of emerging AI protocols and standards, including Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication, tool-calling, and multi-agent architectures.
- Familiarity with AI evaluation frameworks, benchmarking, and model observability.
- Platforms & engineering
- Google Cloud Platform (Vertex AI, Workbench)
- Strong experience with Azure DevOps (Git, Pipelines)
- Experience with end-to-end pipelines (data → model → deployment)
- Way of working
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams
- You understand the “You Build It, You Run It” philosophy
- Governance & mindset
- Knowledgeable on AI (risk) governance
- Out-of-the-box, inquisitive, strategic thinking
- Passion for security and AI
What do we offer?
The time you spend at work, the challenges you face or the lessons you get are very important, but… What about your personal life? At ING we want your work to fulfill you in every way, and that is why we take care of even the smallest details.
Check out what is waiting for you!
Be flexible my friend.
Our model is all about flexibility and accountability. Keeping both our customers and our colleagues needs in mind, you determine together which days you work at home and which you come to ING MAD to offer your best self. Do your thing.
Restaurant card.
So that thinking about what to have for lunch doesn’t take up your time or your cravings.
Our house will be your home.
In our offices you can find electric mobility solutions, doctor, hairdresser, gym, The Good Service (to help you with your errands) and much more!
Health insurance.
For you and all your family (spouse/partner and children).
Life insurance.
We help you protect what matters most to you.
Flexible remuneration.
In addition, you will enjoy our flexible remuneration model, through a more tax-advantaged way, you will be able to access other services such as nursery, transport card, training aids…
Transport allowance.
It doesn't matter where you live, we’ll help you get to the office.
Pension plan.
You can benefit from our pension plan after 1 month with us!
Discover ING Hubs Spain
We’re building something exciting-and we want you to be part of it.
ING is launching the new member of ING Hubs in Spain, an integral part of ING in charge of designing and delivering important technological and operational solutions to make banking frictionless for our customers. ING Hubs play a key role in our ‘Growing the difference’ strategy to become the best European bank. This will be our sixth global hub, joining a network of over 13,000 professionals in the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Türkiye and Spain.
What makes us different?
We have a tech-first mindset: We’re not just a bank-we’re a tech company that happens to do banking. Our new hub will be a center of excellence for scalable, fast, and secure technology.
We have global impact: You’ll be working on solutions that serve more than 34 million of customers in over 38 countries.
We are agile: ING was the first bank to adopt agile at scale. We continue to evolve with a collaborative, cross-functional way of working.
Sustainability at the heart of what we do: We have a role to play in defining new ways of doing business that align economic growth with positive environmental and social impact.
At ING, we believe indiversity, inclusion, and belonging. We’re proud of our international teams and are committed to creating an environment where everyone can thrive. We value authenticity, collaboration, and continuous learning.
We’re looking for curious minds, bold builders, and passionate problem-solvers. If you’re looking for a place to find new ways to drive efficiency and provide superior customer value, where your ideas matter, and where you can grow with purpose-we’re looking forward to meeting you.
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